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At last she made a choice which scandalized the community.

She felt scandalized enough that the children did not wait.

The food service staff was scandalized, but perhaps not surprised.

His face turned pale and scandalized when he saw her.

If Congress refuses to act, we should all be scandalized.

Scandalizing the court is an example of the first category.

Brian was too young himself to be scandalized by this.

She looked almost scandalized, or at least vulnerable in a way he'd never seen before.

First, the servants would be scandalized, no matter what they said.

From a lot of women, such lyrics would have scandalized him.

Well, if he was scandalized, that would be his own hard luck.

"My mother would be scandalized to know I dress like this."

I know that they were truly scandalized by some of the things my family did in the past.

How was it possible to feel both scandalized and excited?

If the free woman should hear such compliments she will be scandalized.

For too long the town had been scandalized by the separate bedrooms.

The work scandalized many, but her paintings were otherwise well received.

"They wanted me to be a model, and I was incredibly scandalized by this," she said.

Do you honestly believe anybody in this part of the world would be scandalized?

Other Communist leaders were more obviously scandalized by the relationship once it became public.

The mystery to me is why workers aren't more scandalized.

"I had no wish to scandalize those who live here," she explained.

He seemed scandalized that anyone could expect him to produce a recent document.

People are scandalized if you read the wrong books.

It will scandalise and offend not only the Catholic faithful.

"They are trying to scandalise my brother.

'The poor schoolmaster must live his life in a glass cage and do nothing that would scandalise the parish!' frank grumbled.

Much more controversially, it may also be a contempt to 'scandalise the court' and thereby undermine public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary.

Dead or fled, the man was out of Meirion's way, and could scandalise Morgant no longer.

It has been said that it is possible to scandalise the public because the public "wants to be shocked in order to confirm its own sense of virtue".

Sixth Week: The High Justice No proposition is likelier to scandalise our contemporaries than this one: it is impossible to establish a just social order.

The local authority committee member tends to go in dread of anything which may scandalise the electorate, voluntary organisations look to the man in the street for approval and funding.

Maintopgallants'l, stuns'ls and royal; and scandalise the foretops'l yard.'

Sieban continued to scandalise Drenai society and his travels with Druss were usually undertaken to escape the vengeance of outraged husbands.

Up for analysis here is a photograph of the event, an image which managed to scandalise one section of the audience while seducing the other: it was a moment of transgression.

Townshend's 1993 concept album Psychoderelict offers a scathing commentary on journalists in the character of Ruth Streeting, who attempts to scandalise the main character, Ray High.

If dramatised by the Marquis de Sade, such scenarios would be proof of our determination to defy biology and to scandalise our feeble creator; for Baker they harmlessly add to the sum of human happiness.

Though he was undoubtedly no advocate of the proverbial British good taste, once exemplified in the cinema by beautifully suppressed emotion and clipped middle-class accents, he was never quite the strange and hairy monster determined to scandalise the bourgeoisie or, at the very least, to exemplify everything that's foreign to the steadier British temperament.